By Jill Lawless
Liverpool, England: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer tried to shake off his image as a gloom-monger on Tuesday, but raised eyebrows after mistakenly referring to hostages held by Hamas as “sausages”.
Urging an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the return of Israeli hostages, Starmer said: “I call again for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the return of the sausages – the hostages – and a recommitment to the two-state solution: recognised Palestinian state alongside a safe and secure Israel.”
The gaffe didn’t stop Starmer’s speech.
The PM appealed to voters exhausted by years of political and economic turmoil with the message that better times are on the way – if they swallow Labour’s recipe of short-term pain for long-term gain.
Starmer capped the Labour Party’s annual conference – the party’s first one since …